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We actually already have one of those, and it still fits just for a different reason:

> The first 90% is easy/fast/cheap, it's the second 90% that's hard/slow/expensive

Since most of the generative approaches treat code as disposable, then the second (and subsequent) 90% approaches just throw it away and start over. It's like all the awesome parts about a rewrite, with all the awesome parts about "it was rewritten because no one understood it"



I always heard it as "The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time." But yeah.


Ha! I've never heard of that one




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